2017 Wildlife Photo Contest

About The Photographer

As a graduating senior at Stanford, majoring in both Human Biology and Art Practice, I think a lot about the intersection of art and science. I see both of my fields as connected because in both I explore my curiosity about the natural world. Through my artwork, I am more deeply engaged with the world around me, and I am able to more meaningfully reflect upon my place in it. Photography is the main medium I work in to explore my environment, and I have been practicing photography since I was 15 years old, and my art practice has been evolving since then. I started my photographic practice in my high school’s dark room with 35mm film. Beginning with film taught me to be extremely thoughtful in which photographs to take and how to frame them because of the limited space on a roll. At the end of high school and the beginning of Stanford, I took additional film photography classes that introduced me to 120mm film and alternative dark room processes. In my last two years at Stanford, my photographic practice expanded to include digital photography. My senior capstone, a photographic book, Higher Up the Mountain, explores climate change in winter landscapes, and was taken with a combination of two different digital cameras, a Canon EOS 60D and Olympus TG-4. I hope that my viewers see my work and are able to reflect upon the time and space in which it was created, and how that environment changed or will change in the seconds, hours, months, or years after the photograph.